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UNITED Sierras PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. BURTON AND JOEL M. HOLDEN, OF' BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,458, dated March 27', 1883. Application filed November (i, 1882. (No model.)

'1o hereby declare thatthe following is a. full,

clear, and exact description of the invention1 'which will enable others to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in cars for carrying stock, either cattle or horses, preventing the unloading to feedand water, and reloading, saving time and expense, and relieving the animals from cruel treatment in carrying them long distances without food and '2o water, and in nnnecessat ily unloadingthem and reloading. Letters Patent have already been granted 11s-namelys to Geo. D. Burton, date Jai1uary3,lSS2, No. 251,695,21nd toJoel M. Holden, application allowed September 16, 1882, Serial No. 67,004, for similar purposes. Our said previous inventions for stock-cars have been for carrying cattle. By our present improvements we can carry cattle or horses yin the same car, and feed or water them without 3o removing them, as stated in our said previous inventions; and each kind (cattle or horses) can lie down separately, have sutcient space1 are properlyT fed and watered in the cars, and are carried at less expense, and without loss of time.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side'elevatiou of our improved stock-car. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same on 4o line a: a: of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the same on line y y of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged vertical section of one end ot' our stock-car. Fig. 6 shows part of our car in plan and part in horizontal section. Figs. 7 4 5 and 8 show the details of our method of opening and closing the stanchions from the top ot' thecar.

A represents the car-body; B, the partitions dividing the car into compartments. C 5o are the stanchon-bars. C are the upright single bars, with rings R moving up and down on' said bars, to which chains P, or ropes or halters, may he fastened. This will allow the cattle or horses attached to said bars to lie down or rise up at pleasure, and. independently'of each other. Said upright bars and rings and chains may be used as a substitute for the stancbions claimed in the said Burton patent. By these arrangements either cattle rately, as desired. When horses are carried they will be furnished with the ordinary balter fastened to the said rings, moving up and down on the hars, as described. llt cattle are or horses can be carried together or sepa- 6o carried, chains P will ,be used, moving with said rings, as shown in Fi. 6, said chains going around the neck of each animal and attached to said rings R, moving up and down on said upright bars. The chainsV P have hooks and smaller rings for diiierent sizes ot' 7o and distributing pipes may be made of metal, 8o

wood, or rubber.

Gare movable partitions, which may he made of wood or any iiexible material, and are capa.- .l ble of being raised or lowered by ropes g and each two animals, separating them from each other, preventing them from crowding. Similar partitions extend transversely across the car, (raisedorlowered, as before statetL) behind each pulleysg. These partitions are placed between animal, which, in case of horses, operate to pre 9o vent kicking. When it is desired to use the car as an ordinary frei ght-car these partitions may be drawn up by the ropes and pulleys, as described, to the top ot the car and fastened there.

` L is a. trough placed under the center doorway,`E, of the car, and over the food-box H a pipe, L', from the outer edge ot' the trough, carries oli' the urine or cxcrement. This trough L and pipe L operate to prevent the urine or excrement from gettin g into the feeddeposit box E. V

M are small grooves in the raised inclined door D. lhcse grooves, beingunder the hind IOC feet of the cattle, enable them to stand firm trough, having a plug and chain, allowing the without slipping, and also aid in carrying off urineorexcrement. Thesegrooveshavesmaller onesleading to the main outlet-groovesN, serv ing the same purpose.

T is a rope passing transversely across the car, behind the animals of each section, which operates to sustain them in place and prevents their heilig disturbed by the starting or stopping ofthe car. yCanvas or other suitable material may be used instead of rope.

a a a. are. tunnel-mouth bins, holding a bushel of grain, (more or less,) said bins being made of suitable wood or metal. i) b b are receptacles under said bins, ot' requisite size to hold food enough for one meal for each animal. The bottoms of said bins and receptacles are opened and closed by levers lt with connecting rods and sliding plates 17j, so that one. movement of the levers opens the bottoni of the receptacles and closes the outlet ofthe bins, and vice versa. Thus one movement of the levers suppliesthe requisite amount of food for each animal in that line for one meal.- Pipes c, of requisite dimen-A sion,lead from each food-receptacle. into a feedtrough in iront of each animal. Doors p pon the top of the car enable the bins to be filled as desired. There are separate troughs u d used as feed and water troughs.

rlhe water-crane at the roadside may he swung over the cars and inserted into the tunnel-mouth e, Fig. 6, of pipe F, supplying water. Smaller distributiiig-pipes,j, carrya supply of water to the water-trough ci in front of each animal.

The Walking-plank o on the top of the car, being hinged, forms a door, o', Fig. 2, for the top of the Water-tunnel, which is flush with the top of the car, operating to keep outl dust and cinders from the water.

p p are doors in the top of the car. through which the levers h are operated yby the brakemen or Iattendants.

In the tunnel-mouth bins and food-receptacles k L are apertures in the sliding vplates and feed-boxes, through which the grain or food passes when they are opened by the movement of the levers h.

In our present invention the troughs d n are placed higher in the car for the convenience of horses, and this atfords extra space underneath w for the storage of'any useful materials.

u u are doors in the side of the car, the npper one for convenience iu supplying fodder, the lower one for access to the extra space w.

c is the overflow-pipe. i

d is the pipe in the bottom of the drinking- Water to run of after being used by the cattle. h are levers pivoted on the cross-beam t,`Fig. 4, operating to open and close the stanchions O. One end of said levers moves in a slot, r, in one of thestanchions, so that a movement of the levers to the right or left closes or opens the stanchions, fastening theanimals in place or releasing them.

m' are chains attached at one end to the keyhar m, which operates'to lock the stanchions y when closed. The other end of the chains m is attached to the roof of the car near the-doors pp, so that the attendants may lift the keybar m, and by a movement ofthe levers h re` lease the animals, by opening the stanchions, .Without going inside of the ear; or, instead of the slotr', in which the lever h' works, a clamp, s, which partially surrounds one of said stanchions O at the end of said lever h', as shown in Fig. 8, may be used. This device, by movement ofthe lever 7L', operates to keep the stanchionsin place `when closed, or to open the stanchions by a movement of the lever 71 to the left or to the right, as required. f

Having described our invention, what we claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- V 1. A stock-ear having a trough, L; placed under the center doorway, E, of the car, with a pipe, L, leading from the outer edge of the trough, substantially as described, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A stock-car having raised inclined floors with grooves M, substantially as described, as

. stanchions, in combination With the chains m',

attached to the key-bar m of said stanchions and the roof of the car, and the doors pp,`sub stantially as described, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. A stock-car having stanchions C and levers lt', pivoted to the cross-beam t ofsaid stanchions, one end of said levers having theclam ping device s partially surrounding one of said stanchions, in combination with the chains m', attached to the key-bar m and the roof of the car, and the doorsp p in said car, substantially asdescribed, as and for the purpose set forth.

GEO. 1 BURTON. JOEL M. HOLDEN.

Vitnesses Y G. M. GWIN, GEO. E. BEr'roN. 

